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First City manager to win a league title in decades and by the time he’d left he had a relatively poor squad in 15th.

He rectified the wrongs of being relegated.

He did, but shouldn't have been relegated in the first place from the position we were in, even with a poor squad we had enough head start not to finish bottom.

That's said, was he any worse than the man he was sacked for? No.
 
The massive amount due in ongoing transfer payments is new, as it is the £3m owed to Ehab.

It makes for disastrous reading, however you spin it.
Surely the money owed to Ehab is coming up to 3 year old debt. It will be in previous accounts and figures.
The transfer fees are pretty normal, I reckon most of the league have large amounts of payments owed to other clubs over the next few years, that's just how business is done now in football.

Clearly there is a cash flow problem and it seems Acun has pushed his luck too many times but it seems to me the article is simply bringing up stuff that was there before and trying to get clicks and sensationalise the issue.
 
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Surely the money owed to Ehab is coming up to 3 year old debt. It will be in previous accounts and figures.
The transfer fees are pretty normal, I reckon most of the league have large amounts of payments owed to other clubs over the next few years, that's just how business is done now in football.

Clearly there is a cash flow problem and it seems Acun has pushed his luck too many times but it seems to me the article is simply bringing up stuff that was there before and trying to get clicks and sensationalise the issue.

What are all the other CEOs at the Very Important Person Club saying, Jim?
 
Not sure it works on tha basis of one club grassing another up. Think these things are monitored routinely so as not to allow one club a competitive advantage by delaying payments when others meet obligations on time.
If that is the case then if it is not allowed why did Acun delay payment and even ask for a delay?
If Villa and City could agree a payment on a certain date but instead they agreed a later date would that be a competitive advantage that shouldnt be allowed? Surely two clubs can agree payment terms to any timetable they both want?
 
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Surely the money owed to Ehab is coming up to 3 year old debt. It will be in previous accounts and figures.
The transfer fees are pretty normal, I reckon most of the league have large amounts of payments owed to other clubs over the next few years, that's just how business is done now in football.

Clearly there is a cash flow problem and it seems Acun has pushed his luck too many times but it seems to me the article is simply bringing up stuff that was there before and trying to get clicks and sensationalise the issue.

if there was anything new in the article, Mike White would have already been social media this morning claiming he was already working on the story.

Buckingham was simply regurgitating all the previous few weeks articles already in the public domain.
 
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You really are a little dweeb aren't you. Say something to my face instead of hiding away in your bedroom crying because Acun is still making you angry.

Lad, you really need to get a thicker skin. Plenty of ****ers on here make personal jibes about my job and so on and I don’t do the whole ‘say it to my face’ tough guy routine.

You open yourself up to ridicule with the way you carry yourself on here, acting all Billy Big Bollocks and humblebragging.
 
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If that is the case then if it is not allowed why did Acun delay payment and even ask for a delay?
If Villa and City could agree a payment on a certain date but instead they agreed a later date would that be a competitive advantage that shouldnt be allowed? Surely two clubs can agree payment terms to any timetable they both want?

I think it has to be done in a way that's ratified though.

There's apparently a negotiation ongoing now to determine what is and isn't permissible and what is punishable ahead of the appeal being heard.

But if you listen to the football finance expert that was on Humberside the other day I don't think they can just renegotiate these things on an ad hoc basis.
 
Quite a lot I imagine as she now has dementia and is bed bound. Thanks for your concern.

Sorry to hear that, my partner lost her mom to dementia few months ago last few years had been terrible for my partner looking after her.
 
Surely the money owed to Ehab is coming up to 3 year old debt. It will be in previous accounts and figures.
The transfer fees are pretty normal, I reckon most of the league have large amounts of payments owed to other clubs over the next few years, that's just how business is done now in football.

Clearly there is a cash flow problem and it seems Acun has pushed his luck too many times but it seems to me the article is simply bringing up stuff that was there before and trying to get clicks and sensationalise the issue.

If you're looking for click bait then you generally don't put it behind a paywall. That's not really the Athletics model.

Whilst it largely confirms what we already knew, it does put a bit more meat on the bones as to the specific level of **** we appear to be in.
 
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